robert, you heard that piece. 67 days since superstorm sandy hit and it seems the storm's victims are the latest casualty of the fiscal cliff fight. does the president bare any responsibility for a broken washington? >> well, look. i think what the president has challenged members of both parties to do is make sure our politics fix the moment and the size of the problems that we have. certainly he has worked tirelessly to bring democrats and republicans together to try to solve some of these problems and i think you have seen and others have seen time after time it's hard to bring speaker boehner to the table. >> robert, there's an old phrase that someone wise always says. don't confuse effort with accomplishment. >> that's probably -- that should be the motto of washington. but, look. in this piece, we have averted tax rates going up on the middle class right now, which i think is a huge victory for the country. the question is, again, we have this mini -- government by mini crisis, and the question is how are we going to meet that moment in the next two months? how are we going to m